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Post by canadamike on Feb 26, 2009 0:24:40 GMT -5
Anybody here has a good supply of Orangeglo watermelon seeds??
Our friend Dan in Syria would like to have some. If anybody also has some good ones in a very dry climate it would be much appreciated. Pm me and I'll send you the adress.
Drought resistant tomato seeds or other veggies would also be welcomed.
The american soldiers have cut the supply of gas in Syria and the farmers can't use their water pump. Though times.
Anything we can do to help would be great.
These people are in a dire situation.
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Post by americangardener on Feb 26, 2009 0:33:15 GMT -5
You'll have to help me out with some names Michel. I can guess at what did good for me back in 2007 when we had a severe drought here.. but that's all it would be would be a guess. If i had some names to search for i might be able to help more.
And i think i'm out of orangeglo.. i may have a few seeds left if that'd be enough... and if i can find em.
One question though.. how tough do you think it'd be to send seeds into syria? I know there are some countries like south africa that are nearly impossible to ship to without em being confiscated. Don't have a clue what Syria would be like though.
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Post by canadamike on Feb 26, 2009 0:57:45 GMT -5
It is not like the media say. I have sent some. It is very honest, the mail people do not confiscate or steal.
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Post by raymondo on Feb 26, 2009 1:09:45 GMT -5
One way to reduce the incidence of letter/parcel disappearance is to ask the post office for a coupon rather than stamps. It seems letters are sometimes stolen just for the stamps in some countries. It might help. I don't have any Orangeglo I'm afraid. The only watermelon I have, or can get plenty of seed for, is Sugar Baby. Good for dry climates (perhaps drought situations) would be the low desert adapted varieties of tepary and cowpea. In fact, any of the low desert vegetables would do reasonably well. Why not contact Native Seed SEARCH and ask if they could recommend varieties that are suited to the low desert, or better still, ask them if they would donate such seeds to a worthy cause. Seed companies here, especially the smaller ones, are usually very happy to help out in situations like this. They have plenty of seed that has passed its use-by date and they can no longer sell it. A lot of it will still germinate albeit at a lower rate. Without pumps for irrigation, many could starve. The world needs to wean itself off fossil fuels. It's of no immediate help but have a look at this www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk . The guy, Geoff Lawton, lives a few hours away from me and set up a water harvesting project in Jordan. It has been a great success. I could find out who the contact is in Jordan and you could pass this on to your Syrian contacts. It's basically an application of permaculture. Geoff is one of Australia's best known permaculture teachers and consultants. Edit: I moved the fullstop away from the link so it won't cause a problem. Thanks for pointing that out ceara.
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Post by ceara on Feb 26, 2009 1:39:09 GMT -5
Oh yeah I've seen some of his videos! Lots of great information and it's amazing to see the transformation in the land with his projects. I'm still trying to figure out what would be considered leguminous understorey trees like he always mentions for "chop and drop," but some that grow in Canada. lol Just a note, if you click on that YouTube link above, remove the period at the end or you will get an error on YouTube. The title of the video is "Greening the Desert." Here's another video, of Geoff in a "behind the scenes" type interview regarding Greening the Desert project. A big chunk of the video is some repeats of the first one, but this one has more photos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ8pjOG4pXI
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Post by dan on Feb 28, 2009 12:55:30 GMT -5
hi
michel the bigest problem here is the water.....not enough.... we have no problem with gaz and electricity for water pomp but all the time we have to take the water deeper now i have water outside 200 meters... the second problem is the clay soil in 70 % in syria i bought sand and ground from outside for mixing... thanks for internet bond but the problem i never can open youtube here ....i dont know why.... thanks for your help
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Post by raymondo on Feb 28, 2009 17:16:46 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Feb 28, 2009 20:05:18 GMT -5
I am glad to see the gaz situation resolved. Damien was desperately looking for alternative solutions last year....
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Post by dan on Mar 1, 2009 0:36:20 GMT -5
thanks Ramondo i go to see this site i dont know this technicity dan
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Post by raymondo on Mar 1, 2009 4:00:59 GMT -5
Je t'en prie Dan. J'ai regardé le site en utilisant le service Google de traduction en ligne. Il y a quelques mots/expressions qui ne marchent pas. Par exemple, settled devient réglé mais settled, dans ce cas, veut dire habité! Mais bon. C'est pas mal quand même.
Si tu veux, je peux contacter Geoff Lawton pour lui demander quelques reseignements de plus sur ce projet et/ou le nom du responsable jordanien. Tu parles arabe?
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Post by dan on Mar 1, 2009 14:11:41 GMT -5
Je t'en prie Dan. J'ai regardé le site en utilisant le service Google de traduction en ligne. Il y a quelques mots/expressions qui ne marchent pas. Par exemple, settled devient réglé mais settled, dans ce cas, veut dire habité! Mais bon. C'est pas mal quand même. Si tu veux, je peux contacter Geoff Lawton pour lui demander quelques reseignements de plus sur ce projet et/ou le nom du responsable jordanien. Tu parles arabe? hello j ai lu l article c est super interessant leur projet,ca a un cote magique toute cette intereaction cette personne est de ton pays? Si tu peux m avoir le contact en jordanie c a m interesse je suis a 600 ,700 km de la bas.... je risquerais bien un tour la bas pour voir en vrai... je suis maintenant depuis 6 ans en syrie et je me debrouille en arabe,j ai appris sur le tas.... je n ai pas eu le temps d aller a l ecole...nous sommes une famille de 6 il faut s en occuper. on arrive dans un pays,pas facile de s integrer economiquement dans le pays au depart... je te disais je parle arabe pour la vie de tous les jours mais des donnees techniques j aurais un peu de mal a tout assimiler.... en anglais ou bien sur en francais c est plus aisé amities dan
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Post by raymondo on Mar 2, 2009 3:28:16 GMT -5
Excuse the temporary diversion into French everyone. I thought it might be of great value to Dan and his Syrian compatriots so I just wanted to be sure. I hope no-one took offense.
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Post by grungy on Mar 2, 2009 5:48:10 GMT -5
offense at what? ?
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Post by bunkie on Mar 2, 2009 8:38:44 GMT -5
no offense here. i thought it was very sweet of you ray!
thanks for posting the transcript ray. being on dial-up, youtubes take too long to download. i find this permaculture fascinating.
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